As a small business owner, you have likely invested a great of yourself and your personal resources into your enterprise. Because of this, you may be considering utilizing every tool that could allow you to protect it. One tool you might be considering is employment...
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Businesses must prioritize accessibility
All businesses must ensure they comply with consumer’s rights. Federal law establishes that every consumer has the right to be safe on a business’s premises and when using their products. They also have the right to obtain information and voice their...
How to minimize risks of trade secret theft
The misappropriation of trade secrets can lead businesses to face serious legal disputes in addition to unfair competition that puts their business at risk.For example, the California-based fitness tech company Jawbone experienced significant consequences in such a...
Connecticut liquor law violations many, diverse
Some business realms across Connecticut and nationally operate with a comparative lack of regulatory restrictions. That is, their owners and managers conduct their enterprises without having to routinely deal with a complex overlay of rules and regulations.Others...
What would make Connecticut distillers ecstatic?
Connecticut’s brewing industry has reportedly grown by exponential leaps and bounds in the seven years following the enactment of state law enabling craft beer makers to sell their product onsite in taprooms.Spirit distillers have duly noted the surge. They...
Arbitration spotlighted in much-debated SCOTUS case
Arbitration as a dispute resolution mechanism has legions of proponents and sharp critics, respectively.The former camp stresses that requiring an employee to take a grievance to arbitration rather than court yields greater efficiency and savings. A common rejoinder...
What will reasonably qualify proprietary data as a trade secret?
In reference to today’s above-posed blog headline query, it can be emphatically stated first of all what will not ensure that a company’s prized internal data or information garners trade secret protection.And that is merely claiming that it does. Absent...
A few tips for employers issuing written warnings to workers
We noted in a recent blog post the truism that employers' day-to-day workplace concerns are both myriad and complex. There is routinely a lot on the minds of successful entrepreneurs and established business principals in Connecticut and elsewhere as they focus on...
Worker discipline can spell material concerns for an employer
The word "litigation" is a term that alarms and even terrifies many business principals.And for good reasons. For starters, taking a business dispute to court or defending against a legal claim is a fundamentally unpredictable proposition. Risks abound in litigation;...
Is that worker a company employee or independent contractor?
Ambiguity can attach to much subject matter in the business world. A company owner in Connecticut or elsewhere does not want to deal with it in the context of worker classification.For purposes of American federal labor law, notes an online primer on a key subset of...